[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] ipoib_flush_paths

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Apr 6 06:19:52 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipoib_flush_paths
> 
> This makes sense but I'm trying to see exactly what goes wrong without
> it.  Suppose path->query gets set to NULL between testing it and
> calling ib_sa_cancel_query().  What's the worst that can happen?  It
> looks safe to ib_sa_cancel_query() with a stale or NULL query pointer.

Just to be clear: this patch is going into 2.6.17, isn't it?

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MST



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